The Paris Intifada, Day Six
Charles Johnson
Wed Nov 2, 2005 at 2:53 pm PST • Views: 267
According to this AP report at the Sydney Morning Herald, gangs of Muslim youths rioting in Paris suburbs have started about 100 fires.
An Associated Press Television news team reported confrontations between about 20 police and 40 youths in Aulnay-sous-Bois with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets.
France-Info said that about 100 fires burned in numerous suburbs of the Seine-Saint-Denis region, an area of soaring unemployment, delinquency and other urban ills.
A carpet store in the town of Bondy was set afire, and cars were burning in Bondy and Sevran, France-Info reported.
Tension had mounted after angry young men torched cars, garbage bins and even a primary school in several days of rioting that highlighted the division between France’s big cities and their poor satellites where disenchantment thrives.
Frank says: